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Biography

Dr Callum Baker is an Accredited Exercise Physiologist (AEP) and lecturer in Exercise Physiology at the University of New South Wales.

Callum’s main research interest is the effects of exercise for metabolic disease and it’s complications. 


My Grants

2022  Exercise and Sports Science Australia Research Grant: Exercise for Adults with Diabetic Foot Ulcers (The DFUEx Study)


My Qualifications

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Dr Callum Baker is an Accredited Exercise Physiologist (AEP) and lecturer in Exercise Physiology at the University of New South Wales.

Callum’s main research interest is the effects of exercise for metabolic disease and it’s complications. 


My Grants

2022  Exercise and Sports Science Australia Research Grant: Exercise for Adults with Diabetic Foot Ulcers (The DFUEx Study)


My Qualifications

2014 Bachelor of Management in Sports and Exercise, University of Technology Sydney, NSW, Australia.

2016 Master of Clinical Exercise Physiology, Australian Catholic University, Sydney, NSW, Australia.

2022 PhD University of Sydney, NSW, Australia.


My Awards

1. Best Clinical Poster: Australian Diabetes Congress 2021

‘Low Volume High Intensity Interval Training with Progressive Resistance Training Increases Proportion of Anti-atherogenic CD31+ T Cells in Obese People with Normal Glucose and Prediabetes’


My Research Activities

  • Therapeutic Interventions for NASH - A systematic review.
  • The DFUEx Study - a randomised control trial for adults with diabetic foot ulcers.
  • CD31+ T cells in Cardiovascular Disease and Insulin Resistance - Using mass cytometry and computational analysis to examine the impact of insulin resistance on immune cells associated with atherosclerosis.
  • Critical VAT Threshold Theory - Is there a threshold amount of VAT, when exceeded leads to metabolic disease/insulin resistance.

 


My Research Supervision


Currently supervising

PACE-G: The effects of combined exercise training on visceral adipose tissue.


My Teaching

Course Convenor:

HESC3541 Clinical Exercise Physiology

HESC3592 Neuromuscular Rehabilitation

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Location

Department of Exercise Physiology
School of Health Sciences
Faculty of Medicine and Health
Wallace Wurth Building
UNSW Sydney
Randwick NSW 2031